![]() ![]() It’s 2005, we in the same hospital room.” This is how the song starts, and it’s also one of the few times Phife puts himself into the verses, except to say things like, “We miss you, kid,” and “Due time … I will see you.” The rest is given over to praising his friend, which was very in the style of the self-effacing emcee. He had been diagnosed with diabetes when he was 20 years old and lived with the disease for over half his life, until he died this past March, at age 45, from complications. By then, Phife had undergone two different kidney transplants: first from his wife in 2008 and, when that didn’t work, a second transplant in 2012. On the 2014 track “Dear Dilla”, Phife Dawg reflected on his own mortality in a letter to his friend, the deceased producer J. ![]() This feature was originally published in March 2016. ![]()
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